Driver dies after running stop sign in southeast Houston

Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle

Published
5:30 am CDT, Saturday, August 2, 2008

A man died in southeast Houston Saturday after he ran a stop sign and hit an oncoming vehicle, authorities said.

The man was driving a 2005 Silver Pontiac Sunfire south on Jutland about 6 p.m. when he failed to make a stop at the Sunbeam intersection, said Sgt. L. Lefler of the HPD Vehicle Crimes Division. He hit a 2003 Black Avalanche, which was traveling west on Sunbeam.

Both cars veered into a ditch.

The man who died at the scene had not been identified. Passengers of the Avalanche were taken to Ben Taub Hospital.